Iron County register., 1887-10-13
LOCAL BREvITIES.

sRed Riding Hood" at the Academy Of
Music Friday night.
Regular meeting of Iron Post, No. 346, G.
A. R., on Thursday evening this week.
A half carl load of Ironton people went up
to the city this morning TO attend the Expo
sition.
The saddest thought appending to the fall
ing leayes Is that the end of the baseball
season draweth on apace.
1t is well-attested historical fact that
''too much water drowned the miller" Yet
the Local Optionists plunge madly on and in
The regular fall rains are not far OF, If
indeed they are not upon us. Monday
morning would have passed for wet day In
November.
1t is rumored that new time card for the |
st. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern R'y |
will be issued next Sunday, with some i'm
portant changes.
Fifteen dollars have been subscribed to- |
ward digging well and eQuipping it on the
public school lot. Subscriptions received at
this Office. Next!
Mrs. j. s. Ripple, of Graniteville. who has
been very i'll for eight weeks-at one time
not expected to live-is, we are happy to |
say, now in fair way to recover.
The sale of jewelry and other effects Of the
late Rev. Donaldson was not concluded last
Saturday, and consequently will be contin-
ued next Saturday, commencing at II O'Clock |
A. NJ.
A drug store is place of popular resort.
During the absence Of Capt. Crisp on Tues
day and Wednesday of last week, not less
than three hundred people tried fruitlessly
to gain admission into his premises.
DIED-At his parents residence in Area y
dia, No., on Friday evening, October 7th,
at $3.50 O'Clock, EBERHARD, son Of Frank II
and Anna Fisher, aged 10 years. The REQ
mains were inferred in the Catholic Gene. :
terry at Pilot Knob, on Saturday at 8 P. NJ.
The Vulcan Lumber Company, at Vulcan,
No., Is new enterprise in Iron county. The
Company will do lumber and piling bust. !.
ness. Messrs. Blake s. jacques, OF Omaha,
Neb., who haye invested in considerable realH
estate in this section, are the general agents.
The entertainment at the Academy OF
Music Friday evening promises one OF the,i
finest treats the people of Ironton have hads'
for long time. The operetta, "Red Riding [
Hood" under the direction Of Prot. Burgett, ;,
will be given on that evening. Admission,
26 cents; children, 10 cents.
Iron IL now surrounded by "dry" counties |
"A sort Of s'wet" oasis in an arid desert. |
Her palm trees still flourish and her foun.
tains are not yet dried up; but who can tell
when the withering blast may come, and the
sands of the Local Option Law drink up the |
LIQUID that cheers and inebriates?
There will be preaching in tn, Ironton NJ.
e. Church every evening next week, with
the exception OF Friday eve. On Friday eV-
ening the ladies Of the Church Will give
General Supper, with Oysters and Ice.
Cream, at the Academy of Music Come 70
the preaching and come to the Supper.
The wild grape harvest in this section has
been large one. A horse, light wagon,
Q driver, and two or three children, nave
been known to capture several busneis OF
"summer" grapes IN few hours. Inc
woods are full of this fruit, which exceis IN
favor the best varieties Of the cultivated
plants. >
The famous Kennedy Holiday dama0e
suit was again tried at Fredericktown last
week, and verdict given for the DEFENDANT.
In the former trial Kennedy got verdict Ior
$4,000 damages. Holiday appealed-the
REGISTER Office printing 124-page orieI
for bim-and the Supreme Court reversed
and remanded the case.
Rev.Irl Hicks prophesies the most dreaoiui
atmospheric disturbances this week: nurri-
canes and cyclones such as have never Deen
known to the land of the free and the nome
of the brave since G. Washington hatcnetea
the cherry-tree In the language OF the IT.
reyerent. what's the use of being prophet
unless you're a sheol of prophet:
An old subscriber writes to inquire Nv nat
IA succotashw and to know If succotasn mas
ANYTHING to do with any other KIND OF nasn
He Is referred to Exodus Kill, 81, where II Is
shown that Succotn was the first stoppinR
place of the Israelites after leaving Egypt
Tbey did the best they could when they got
there and made hash, which, ever after-
vards. WAS known as Succothash.
To G. F. Schwab, ESQ.,, an Iron county
boy. now of Los Angeles, California, we are
Indebted for a copy Of the illustrated Los
Anaeles Herald. 1t is magnificent number
of forty-elght pages, containing articles de-
scr;ntiye and engravIngs illustrative OF that
famous section of California, and gives an
,dea of the enterprise which has made ana
IA making the most of land abundantiy
blessed by nature.
Some time ago we noted the presenting 70
this Office of samples of corn by Judge i.
p. Russell. Since then Sam. Boyd, coiored
citizen. has brought to us several very nne
.necimens of this cereal, called "The Wnite
Reauty.n He does this, not SO mucn 10
compete with the Judge, who Is known ~
one of our best farmers, as to show tnat
black man may raise mighty fine white corn.
And II is fine corn, for a fact.
LOST Cow.-If any person lost large
6ne cow. giving milk a. the time, in 1881, let
fhem write to the undersigned at Lesterviiie,
Mo. and he will tell them all about her. She
was an extra fine cow in size, appearance
and milking qualities, red color, and. am
aure. she either belonged to Ironton, Pilot
Knob. Granitevilie, Iron Mountain or some
Of those public works, a. she had the appear.
.nce of being stalled and curried.
D. II. LEE.